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Month: January 2018

What does it mean to say that everyone rides affordable golf carts Florida forever now? When you (gentle reader) think about it, that is to say put any amount of thought on the subject, it is possible for it to carry all manners of meaning. It is entirely possible that the phrase has no particular meaning at all. The written phrase could just be a means of embedding a key word and back link in order to optimize the content on another website. But if this be the case, is it possible that the phrase contains meaning that was not intended by its author?

The question is, where does meaning come from? Is there an objective source of meaning (that is, the essentialist position) or is all meaning subjective (that is, the nominalist point of view). According to the essentialist position, things have objective meaning that is independent of a person who perceives it. By contrast, the nominalists hold that meaning is purely a function of the mind of the person who perceives it. Of course there are implications that follow depending on which stand point a person chooses to accept as the truth.

The essentialist stand point presumes the existence of a supreme being who is the one who assigns objective meaning to things. Of course the supreme being’s perspective is a subjective point of view in a sense. This assumes that the subjective perspective of a supreme being is not merely a metaphor for objective meaning. The more this subject is broken down the more it actually breaks down. It makes sense to say that meaning is a wholly subjective affair in that objective meaning ultimately assumes a supreme being’s subjective meaning. On the other hand subjective meaning is based upon something which in turn could be objective.